Four federal proposals have mobilized on average
Published: Sunday, Nov 24th 2024, 18:50
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The expansion of freeways, the proposals on tenancy law and the uniform financing of healthcare treatments mobilized voters to an average extent. Around 45% of eligible voters cast their vote on the four proposals.
However, the level of mobilization varied from canton to canton. The figures from the Federal Chancellery show that the proposals brought a similar number of people to the polls as the rejected pension fund reform and the rejected biodiversity initiative in September.
In contrast, the turnout for the four federal proposals in March 2023 - including the initiative for a 13th AHV pension - was around 58 percent.
Until 1950, voter turnout in Switzerland averaged around 60 percent. In the following 20-year cycles, it initially fell to 48% and then to 41%. In some years, not even 40 percent of voters bothered to go to the polls.
Participation has been rising again since the turn of the millennium, most recently to an average of 46%. This was the average for 2011-2020 according to the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).
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